Literary Recreations and MiscellaniesTicknor and Fields, 1854 - 431 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... wisdom . His project , whatever it may be , is at once pronounced to be impracticable folly , or , as they are pleased to term it , Utopian . The romance of Sir Thomas More , which has long 10 RECREATIONS AND MISCELLANIES .
... wisdom . His project , whatever it may be , is at once pronounced to be impracticable folly , or , as they are pleased to term it , Utopian . The romance of Sir Thomas More , which has long 10 RECREATIONS AND MISCELLANIES .
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... once misanthropes and philanthropists , amused and solaced themselves by imagining a perfect and simple state of society , in which the lessons of emulation and selfish am- bition were never to be taught ; where , on the contrary , the ...
... once misanthropes and philanthropists , amused and solaced themselves by imagining a perfect and simple state of society , in which the lessons of emulation and selfish am- bition were never to be taught ; where , on the contrary , the ...
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... once degrades the author and insults his readers . - He assumes ( for he is one of those sublimated philoso- phers who reject the Baconian system of induction and depend upon intuition without recourse to facts and fig- ures ) that the ...
... once degrades the author and insults his readers . - He assumes ( for he is one of those sublimated philoso- phers who reject the Baconian system of induction and depend upon intuition without recourse to facts and fig- ures ) that the ...
Pagina 49
... thousand families at that period , one half had animal food twice a week . The other half ate it not at all , or at most not oftener than once a week . Wheaten loaves were only seen at the tables 4 ENGLAND UNDER THE LAST STUART . 49.
... thousand families at that period , one half had animal food twice a week . The other half ate it not at all , or at most not oftener than once a week . Wheaten loaves were only seen at the tables 4 ENGLAND UNDER THE LAST STUART . 49.
Pagina 56
... once hateful and ludicrous , of whom it is difficult to speak without an execration or a sneer . The events which preceded the revolution of 1688 ; the undisguised adherence of the king to the church of Rome ; the partial toleration of ...
... once hateful and ludicrous , of whom it is difficult to speak without an execration or a sneer . The events which preceded the revolution of 1688 ; the undisguised adherence of the king to the church of Rome ; the partial toleration of ...
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Pagina 307 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 151 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Pagina 257 - A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Pagina 237 - But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Pagina 431 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 174 - Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
Pagina 136 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Pagina 272 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Pagina 54 - Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and watercasks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the life even of the murderer.
Pagina 430 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict...
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